"Empress Dowager, do you truly intend to stand by and watch Jia Lingyun run amok like this?!"
"Those scholars are the very hope of our Dawei!"
Among the scholars who had been surrounded, many were the sons of current imperial officials, and they themselves were beneficiaries of the Nine-Rank System. Initially, when their children started causing trouble, they had hoped to use the commotion to force Jia Lingyun to back down. However, when rumors spread that Murong Chong had led troops to surround all the protesting scholars, they panicked and rushed to the elder Grand Preceptor Long Gu to plead for mercy.
Chapter 47