Hearing Kong Wenyuan's rhetorical question, Lin Sheng recalled the various admonitions Emperor Qian had given him when he left Luoyang.
Among them, the most important directive was to find evidence of lawbreaking by the aristocratic families in Guangling Prefecture, and ideally to suppress them thoroughly so their influence would not continue to grow.
Recently, however, he had been too preoccupied with other matters—such as guarding against a potential return of the enemy—to give it much thought.
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