After two full months, the Imperial Court still had not chosen a suitable candidate.
However, the Imperial Court had not simply allowed Mount Liang to keep growing unchecked.
When Mount Liang announced that it had occupied Gaotang Prefecture, an army marched toward Mount Liang.
Of course, anyone with eyes could see that this army was only there to keep Mount Liang distracted.
To ensure that whoever arrived in the end could reap the benefits of defeating Mount Liang, this army could not destroy it before the Imperial Court settled on its final candidate, even if it had the strength to do so.
They would only curb Mount Liang's growth and destroy its forces, then wait for someone else to take the credit.
For this army, that was truly a miserable state of affairs.
But such situations had long since become commonplace.
To those people in the Imperial Court, all these rebels would ultimately become nothing more than nourishment to help them climb another rung.
Beyond that, nothing these rebels did could possibly accomplish anything else.
After all, the Imperial Court was the one that ruled the entire realm.
Without any support, these people would ultimately be nothing more than clay chickens and earthenware dogs.
Under these circumstances, Mount Liang was surrounded.
However, the people on Mount Liang did not care in the slightest.
They were merely targets pushed out into the open. Unless someone came to attack them, they were not particularly inclined to act.
After all, buying time was their most important objective at present.
Although the army had surrounded them, they simply held their ground on Mount Liang without making a single move.
Under these circumstances, the army could do absolutely nothing about them.
After all, Mount Liang's terrain gave it far too great an advantage. As long