Hearing this, Wu Yong and the others looked over immediately.
To be honest, he and Lin Sheng shouldn't have argued with the others just now. No matter what, he was the serving Minister of Justice and Lin Sheng was the Chief Justice of the Court of Judicial Review; arguing with a bunch of fifth- and sixth-rank officials in the imperial court was entirely beneath their dignity.
Yet the problem was that there were too few of them. If both he and Lin Sheng had remained silent, there would have been no debate at all—it would have been a monologue dictated entirely by the opposing faction! Even though there were many neutral officials in the court, precisely for that reason, those officials were even less likely to meddle.
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