The Censorate was largely composed of upright, independent-minded officials, and men with backbones of iron were common among them. Its current Censor-in-Chief had been at the forefront of resistance against Liu Shan years before, earning him a promotion from Chief Left Censor to Censor-in-Chief.
Nearly every censor present had defended Fang Yun at court and fought against Liu Shan.
They had never imagined that Fang Yun might become the next Liu Shan.
Apart from the independent censors of unblemished reputation, several others belonged to various factions and represented their interests.
In truth, those independent censors still felt no aversion toward Fang Yun. He had served as Left Prime Minister for more than half a month, and before that as Governor-General of the Two Rivers, yet he had never planted his own people in the Censorate.
He was unlike the imperial family and Yang Xuwen, who had immediately installed their own people as censors upon gaining power. Although the other censors had not pushed back, they disliked the greedy way those two had grabbed at the feast.
In many censors' eyes, whatever else might be said of Fang Yun, at least his table manners were not ugly.
This was also one reason several upright censors had refrained from attacking Fang Yun at court that day.
Thus, as long as Fang Yun did not forcibly interfere with the Censorate or commit a grave offense, most censors would never come to dislike him. As for his desire to gather power, giving a Void Sage of his generation a little more authority would not destroy the Jing Kingdom. Besides, Fang Yun's achievements were so great that they could already make up for any mistake he might make.
The censors' reactions to Fang Yun's decree varied.
The newly appointed Chief Left Censor, a staunch supporter