It was more or less what Sun Shaozong had predicted.
Recently, Lin Qisheng had indeed made one startling move after another in court.
At first, everyone in the Censorate assumed Chief Censor Lin had set his sights on some big fish again. Each and every one of them had been rubbing their hands together, waiting to collectively "earn first-class merit."
Who would have thought that what finally came was news of Lin Qisheng petitioning to retire?
According to Zhao Rongheng, however, Lin Qisheng's change had begun half a year ago, which did not quite match his family's claim that it had started over two years ago.
Yet that only further proved that Lin Qisheng's resignation had been caused by a problem with emotional control.
He had most likely developed some sort of mental illness two years ago. But in this day and age, there were only a few simple classifications for one's mental state: madman, fool, or normal person.
Though Lin Qisheng's behavior had been extremely outlandish, he clearly did not belong to either of the first two categories. Coupled with his reluctance to seek treatment and his lack of understanding of how to adjust his own state of mind, his symptoms had gradually worsened, until he began displaying restless and eccentric behavior even in court.
Lin Qisheng had evidently realized that if this continued, utter ruin awaited him. So he had decisively cut his losses by retiring to his hometown.
With the connections and prestige he had built before leaving office, once he returned to his native Shanxi, he would absolutely have become a local tyrant. So long as he did not run into an Upright Official like Hai Rui, he could probably have continued his abuses for several more years.
Yet he had never expected that even after