Minister Xun thought Lin Ke had not noticed what he was scheming.
But Lin Ke had already seen through him.
Why would a dignified head of a department need to blow the matter out of proportion?
It was just like Lin Ke himself at the beginning.
He had never wanted to make a big deal of things. After all, it was such a hassle!
Hassles were precisely what he dreaded.
If this Murong family had not kept hounding him relentlessly, he would not have bothered with them.
And Minister Xun?
Minister Xun should have been handling a thousand affairs a day.
After all, he had only just taken over the Rites Department. Sorting everything out within two or three years would already have been quite an achievement.
Yet Minister Xun had come over because of a single remark from Lin Ke.
This was not merely because Lin Ke was the powerful patron he wanted to cling to, but also because coming to see Lin Ke was more important than whatever work he had in hand!
One whale fell, and myriad lives flourished!
After a whale died, its enormous carcass became a feast for the surrounding sea creatures.
The Rites Department was no different.
Unchanged for hundreds, even thousands of years, the Rites Department had been entirely under Lin Xuanji's command.
Lin Xuanji's demotion meant that many people in the Rites Department had lost their backer.
As the new Minister of Rites, Minister Xun was bound to covet those positions.
If he did not put his own people in certain important posts, how could he expect things to run smoothly when he needed them?
If Lin Xuanji received his orders the moment he issued them, how could that possibly be tolerated?
There might also be people slacking off, countering every policy