In the study of the Ministry of People, Zhang Shizhong, Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, laid out the information he had gathered, including Mei Juncang’s deductions. At the end, he growled with hatred, "To slaughter the innocent in the name of state affairs—how is that any different from a demonic blight!"
As the Chancellor, he was naturally furious that a Library curator under his charge had died so obscurely. But what good was anger?
For one, the perpetrators had handled the curator with such clinical precision that all evidence had been erased, leaving behind only clues pointing toward Zhou Tieyi. More importantly, the Great Xia Emperor in the Zixiao Heaven had tacitly approved the act, as had the Empress. With the crisis of Zhou Tieyi approaching sainthood looming over them, they were truly caught between a rock and a hard place, besieged from all sides.
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