Seeing that Junior Minister Han said as much, Zhang Xun stopped asking further questions. Instead, changing the subject, he asked, "By the way, you were ambushed by assassins this morning, Junior Minister Han. Do you need me to find some people to protect you?"
"Protect me from what?" Junior Minister Han chuckled. "Isn't this just perfect? The Yue Mansion now has a whole series of charges against them—'trafficking in illicit salt,' 'forging ordination certificates,' 'bribing officials,' 'murdering scholars,' and so on and so forth. Now we can just add one more: 'attempting to assassinate a high-ranking court official'..."
"Just calculate it yourself. It was already a capital crime punishable by public decapitation. According to the Song Criminal Code, plotting to murder an official of the fifth rank or higher carries a triple-enhanced penalty—the Yue Mansion is setting themselves up to rot in prison."
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