Wenren Sheng was incomparably wise. Of course, he knew that copying Wang Mang would be exceedingly difficult.
First, he would have to replicate Wang Mang's entire family of high-ranking officials.
Wang Mang had the Empress Dowager in the inner court and several powerful high officials in the imperial court. Only then could he rely on his immense reputation to peacefully receive the throne through abdication.
The officials were convinced, and the army did not rebel.
His later rebellion had also been because his methods could not solve the problems that had emerged in the Western Han.
Therefore, Wenren Sheng would only adopt Wang Mang's name, not his substance.
He would start with the Saintly Teaching beneath his feet.
The Saintly Teaching had a simple structure. It consisted of the Eighteen Halls, and the Quan clan had inherited the position of Teaching Master generation after generation.
The current Teaching Master was Quan Tianyi, who also directly commanded the Ninth Hall. It was his personal army and directly governed territory.
The Tenth Hall was controlled by his niece, Quan Shayun, who was also the Holy Maiden.
That alone amounted to more than one-tenth of the Saintly Teaching's entire strength.
He was equivalent to a major shareholder in a joint-stock company.
They possessed the Heavenly Fiend Blood Concealment Art. Through generations of accumulation, every generation had Innate Experts capable of suppressing the Saintly Teaching.
With supreme martial strength and the support of the rank-and-file members from two directly controlled halls, as long as they were not brain-dead, ruling the entire Saintly Teaching should naturally have been no difficult matter.
Yet this Saintly Teaching Master happened to be brain-dead... and a brain-dead man with extremely high martial arts.
His favorite thing to do every day was sneak into where others slept late at night,