Zhang Guanjing rambled on for a while, the gist of which was that he was having a nice chat with the others when this princess from the Western Regions came up to cause trouble and verbally provoked him by saying he couldn't beat her. He claimed that he fought with the princess to prevent the men of the Great Jin from being humiliated.
Hua Jing listened with her brows furrowing more and more. That was the gist of the story, but it just didn't sound right coming from this person. She was the one who was speaking rudely and she was standing up for him, but his way of putting it made her seem like she was the one who was looking for trouble, while he was the victim!
After Zhang Guanjing finished speaking, the emperor glanced at the imperial edict, sensing that Zhang Guanjing had undoubtedly embellished the story and wanting to send a message to expose the truth. But at that moment, a woman stepped forward; she was Yang Xiaoman, the daughter of the Vice Minister of Revenue.
The Vice Minister of Revenue was also behind the Emperor. When he saw his daughter step forward, he was stunned and didn't know what was going on.
Yang Xiaoman bowed respectfully before recounting the events.
The incident was not instigated by the princess from the Western Regions, but by this Zhang Guanjing.
She was just enjoying the flowers with her companions when Zhang Guanjing started making sarcastic remarks, saying that she had been kidnapped by a flower thief and lost her chastity, and that if she didn't go to settle things, she should hide away and be too ashamed to face anyone, yet she still had the nerve to come to the palace banquet to enjoy the flowers.
The princess from the Western Regions, who was listening nearby, expressed her incomprehension. So what if a woman was slept with by a man? If he had the guts, he should go and kill the man. What was the point of condemning a woman here?
So, after a few back and forth, the two started fighting. Zhang Guanjing seemed to harbor a great hostility towards women, always emphasizing that women were inferior to men and should stay at home to be good wives and mothers. That's why, after kicking him away, the Western Region princess said, "The men of the Great Jin are so incompetent that they can't even beat a woman!"
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