When word came back that the Grassland Royal Court had declared war on the Great Blue Dynasty, public opinion in Lanling City shifted.
Everyone felt the court should stop fighting and negotiate peace.
Then news arrived that a million Northern Barbarians had invaded the northern frontier.
Before people had even begun discussing it widely, word spread throughout Lanling City that the Son of Heaven had firmly rejected peace talks and ordered Marquis Jing'an Li Fei and Xuanchen Real Person to lead troops north.
For a time, the uproar shook the heavens!
In truth, the common people at the bottom had no idea whether they should fight or make peace. But those who controlled public opinion had never been those common people.
Officials, scions of noble families, great scholars, famous martial experts, and others like them would publicly state their views and lead the discussion. Naturally, public opinion would be swept along.
The common people had always been the ones who were incited.
On December 15, more than a hundred Imperial Academy students blocked the entrance to Tai Xuan Gate outside the Imperial City and publicly protested!
Before the Mingxin Reform, the Imperial Academy had been the highest institution of learning in the Great Blue Dynasty, training not only civil officials but martial artists as well.
Once the Mingxin Reform began and twelve universities were established throughout the country, the Imperial Academy's "authority" was gradually dispersed.
The Twelve Universities were the first choice of the top nobles and powerful families. They also had to reserve some places for poor students from across the land, making competition fierce.
Thus, some members of the noble class who were "too good for the bottom but not good enough for the top" still chose to send their children to the Imperial Academy.
After all, once