The next morning, everything people had speculated about appeared in the newspapers.
It was also interesting that the newspapers had dared to report on the incident itself.
Lin Qi bought all the morning papers published in the imperial capital. Most of them reported on the nobles' brawl inside the Privy Council, giving detailed accounts of why both sides had fought and how severe the fight had been.
Surprisingly, there had been several reporters hiding outside the Privy Council at the time. They had captured the scene with their cameras, and those photographs had become the headlines on the front pages.
Some of them showed the nobles injured. A photograph of Kipplin curled up on the ground while Lin Qi and the Small Earl kicked him viciously had also appeared in every newspaper.
Lin Qi looked at himself in the photograph. As expected, he looked handsome—dashing and charming as always, even while fighting.
News that clearly should not have appeared in the newspapers had been exposed without the slightest concealment by all the major papers. There had to be something behind it! Perhaps it was... a conspiracy.
One of the most basic elements of authority was a sense of distance. If that distance disappeared, authority would no longer seem quite so authoritative.
For example, people held law enforcers in considerable awe, but lacked sufficient respect for their friends, even when those friends were law enforcers themselves.
That was what distance brought.
Distance did not refer to the physical distance between people. A person could have a sense of distance from too many things in this world.
The "distance" being discussed here was actually a way of behaving.
When a wolf saw a dog that looked very much like a wolf eating feces, it would certainly feel a sense of distance. It