"Since you didn't make a move in Jiangnan, I'll spare you this time."
If the young man in green robes were to launch an assassination attempt in Jiangnan, he was confident he could save his life, but disaster relief for the people would not go so smoothly.
Gu Mu got back into the carriage, but the roof was gone. When they passed through a city, they changed to another carriage.
And so, they made their way back to the capital.
The next day at court, a large number of people were indeed kneeling in the central court.
Since they liked to kneel, Gu Mu let them kneel and didn't tell them to get up.
The Minister of War, deeply distressed, said, "Your Highness, I have heard that 132 officials from the imperial court in Jiangnan have been beaten to death by the disaster victims. I believe that even if those officials did wrong, they were still loyal to Your Highness. How can we allow them to die in such a humiliating manner?"
The Minister of Justice also knelt on the ground, wiping away his tears: "Your Highness, my brother only had one son, but... but he died like this, making my brother's lineage end!"
"This...this is an official appointed by the imperial court! How can Your Highness treat him so casually..."
"Your Highness, are you so intolerant of injustice? Why must an official who is loyal to you die such a gruesome death..."
...
Violent and unpredictable.
The civil officials chattered amongst themselves, and that's how they bestowed this title upon Gu Mu'an in the imperial court.
After all, it concerned the interests of those officials. Those from the Empress Dowager's faction, those with unclear stances, and those who remained neutral all stood up at this moment to plead for those 132 officials. Since the Regent could kill those 132 court officials without any mercy, what about them? Did these people really carry more weight in His Highness's eyes?
It is said that serving a ruler is like serving a tiger, so they would rather be a docile tiger than a tiger that bites people on sight.
"My esteemed ministers, do you feel that my punishment was inappropriate?"
The court has the right to offer remonstrances, and even if the remonstrances differ from the king's opinion, the king cannot punish the remonstrator for it; this has been the rule since ancient times.
Although Gu Mu doesn't follow any rules.
But this rule did embolden those officials.
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