Just as Zhao Xu was struck with horror, Provincial Graduates had already swarmed to the palace gates, shouting chaotically. Following the lead of a few men who shouted to stop them, the several thousand Provincial Graduates subsequently all knelt before the palace gates, one after another crying out.
"Investigate the corruption clearly! Return our integrity!"
Several thousand people shouting these eight words together sounded like a rumbling thunder, bursting open before the palace gates.
"All stop! Stop!"
If the several thousand Provincial Graduates alarmed the emperor, it would truly cause a major disaster. Unable to care about anything else, Zhao Xu cried out, though the strange part was that a voice nearby shouted the exact same thing in unison.
Turning his head to look, he saw Qian Wei's ox cart also parked not far away, while Qian Wei climbed down from the cart, shouting aloud and casting a glance toward him.
Must stop them.
The two senior officials had after all been colleagues for many years, and with just this single glance, an immediate tacit understanding formed.
The two high officials ran over one after the other. Qian Wei roared, "What are you all doing? Committing such an uproar at the palace gates, what kind of decorum is this? Where have your studies of the Book of Documents gone?"
With just these words delivered with abundant force, he completely suppressed the voices of the scholars nearby.
People in the distance were still shouting, but once the sound here dropped, the people in the distance also seemed to sense something, and the wave of noise followed suit by subsiding.
Lingering a step behind Qian Wei, Zhao Xu also spoke out loudly at this moment, "If you have objections, you can submit a memorial. You are all readers of the Book of