The jade slip delivered by Grand Supervisor of the Inner Palace Yu Chaoen did not contain much. It merely explained the current situation, enough to keep Ye Zhen from being blind to what was going on.
At court, the Marquisate of Tianming had first fiercely impeached Ye Zhen, the Wind Patrol Envoy, accusing him of meddling in the affairs of a feudal state, overstepping his authority and abusing his power, acting recklessly and wantonly, and causing the Marquisate of Tianming grievous losses.
Next, Sun Moon Heaven of the Heaven Temple accused Ye Zhen of slaughtering temples and destroying shrines, naming him the chief culprit behind the massacre at the Heaven Temple's Shahe City Branch Temple. The Heaven Temple was constantly pressuring Great Zhou, demanding that Great Zhou hand over Ye Zhen's entire clan to Sun Moon Heaven to be offered in sacrifice to the gods as atonement.
The main difficulty lay in these two directions.
However, according to Yu Chaoen, neither the Marquisate of Tianming nor the Heaven Temple possessed irrefutable ironclad evidence on either count.
At the end of the jade slip, Yu Chaoen gave Ye Zhen only one instruction: whether or not the matter in Shahe City had been Ye Zhen's doing, no matter what evidence the other side produced, Ye Zhen only needed to deny it flatly. He absolutely could not admit it.
Of course, now that the matter had fermented to this point, it could no longer be settled merely by Ye Zhen stubbornly refusing to admit it. Yu Chaoen had specifically instructed him to adapt to circumstances during tomorrow's court session.
With a light rub of his fingers, the jade slip from the Grand Supervisor of the Inner Palace turned to flying ash. Ye Zhen sank into deep thought.
Back in Shahe City, after Ye