Three days later, paper rained down like snowflakes, blanketing the city. It fell from the ramparts, from the taverns, and seemed to descend from the heavens themselves.
[The Proclamation of Crimes]
[The Fu Family has long harbored treacherous intent; this is the utmost dishonesty of a subject. They have reveled in luxury and decadence while exploiting the people, leaving the roads littered with the frozen dead while their granaries stood empty. The merchants have no shops, and the farmers have no land. Within the city, they indulged in pools of wine and forests of meat, while outside, the earth was white with the bones of the starved. Brandishing His Majesty’s verbal edicts, they usurped the power of the state, plotting to force the throne and claim the crown for themselves. Such disloyalty and dishonesty, such corruption and injustice—heaven will not tolerate it.]
Chapter 261