The Scholar's Library had been sending new books to the Jixia Academy over the last 60 years. Most of these book were explanations of the Confucianism classics. The books however, did not sell as well as they expected.
The main reason for the failure was that the market for those types of books had a lot of competition, and it was hard to capture the buyers' attention.
But all this changed when the Tale of Execution was sent to the academy for review.
The book caused a huge uproar almost immediately. The first thing that the professors criticized was the simple use of grammar and vocabulary.
Fortunately, Zhou Yi did make a statement at the beginning of the book, stating that it was intended for regular citizens. Since Great Qian wasn't an empire that solely followed the teaching of Confucius, the critics grew to accept the use of a simpler language.
However, the contents of the book also caused an uproar.
