Diligently Serving the King

The moment those words were spoken, the deathly silent scene erupted into a frenzy.

Great Yue placed great importance on titles of nobility and never bestowed them lightly. An ordinary person would have to expend every ounce of effort to earn even the rank of Deputy Ten Households, let alone the title of Duke of the State with a fief of a hundred thousand households, or Marquis of Ten Thousand Households.

Clearly, Xu Yi, who had once been hailed as the Poet Immortal and Word Sage, had turned from a hero of Great Yue into a traitor to the entire nation.

And his fearsome reputation had even enraged the Son of Heaven of Great Yue.

"Today is the day we establish our merits and build our careers!"

"We live on Yue's grain, and in death we'll be Yue's ghosts!"

"Newly appointed top three scholars, what are you waiting for? This is the time to repay the common people below and the sovereign's kindness above!"

"..."

Indeed, Xu Yi's literary fame had shaken the heavens. He had also rendered outstanding service in defending Great Yue against foreign aggression, and, in particular, had saved the reputations of every lord present.

The Great Yue royal family had openly seized Xu Yi's treasures, abusing public office for private gain. It was contemptible, and who knew how many people here had secretly cursed the royal family of Great Yue in their hearts.

But when the Son of Heaven of Great Yue issued his edict, that tiny sense of justice in everyone's hearts vanished in an instant.

As the old saying went, children cared about right and wrong; adults cared only about gains and losses.

The people here were certainly no children. They cared only about gains and losses, and there was nothing strange about that.