As soon as Ji Ao, the New Monarch, issued several Imperial Decrees, the nobles of Luoyi were thrown into an uproar.
The Imperial Decree posthumously conferring Ye Zhen as King of North Sea had originally been publicly announced, yet now it had been changed to an Imperial Decree officially enfeoffing Ye Zhen as King of North Sea.
Changing a posthumous title into an official enfeoffment meant that some enormous upheaval must have occurred.
When Grand Priest of the Ancestral God Hall Dongyang Si Chen publicly announced his voluntary resignation from the position of Grand Priest, even a fool could see that something was wrong.
If he had not committed some grave error, who could make the inheritor Sacred Priest Dongyang Si Chen voluntarily resign as Grand Priest?
Calling it a voluntary resignation was, frankly, only to make it look better on the surface. Grand Priest Dongyang Si Chen had likely been forced to resign.
The change from posthumous title to official enfeoffment was likely meant to placate Ye Zhen, the former Duke of the State.
As this news spread, Ye Zhen's political faction, which had originally lost power and fallen into anxious unease, immediately sprang back to life like a dragon and tiger.
In particular, the households of Marquis Taichuan Liu Ye and Duke of Xinning Prefecture Gu Yan immediately hung lanterns and decorations, holding grand banquets for relatives and friends.
The noble clans that had previously used Ye Zhen's posthumous title as an excuse to sever or avoid ties with these two households now sent gifts several times more lavish than before, each dispatching the most influential members of their families to mend the relationships anew.
For a time, the winds and clouds over Luoyi shifted and changed.
However, before the gates of Dongyang Si Chen's residence, the Grand